India national under-23 football team

India

Nickname(s)	Blue Cubs
Association	All India Football Federation
Head coach	Arthur Papas
Captain	Jeje Lalpekhlua
First colours Second colours
Olympic Games
Appearances	1 (First in 1960)
Best result	Group Stage
AFC U22 Asian Cup
Appearances	None
Best result	Qualifiers

The India national under-23 football team is a national association football youth team of India and is controlled by the All India Football Federation. The team represents India in the Olympic Games and AFC U-22 Asian Cup. So far India U23 have only qualified for the Olympics once (1960) in which they finished in the group stage and are going to attempt to qualify for the first edition of the AFC U-22 Asian Cup which is slated for 2014.

Olympic History

2012 London Olympics

Under the coaching of Scottish coach Des Bulpin, India's Olympic qualifiers started with the first round being against Myanmar. India won the first match 2–1 with and drew the second leg 1–1 but India still progressed on aggregate 3–2. The next round was against Qatar in which India lost the first match 1–3 but then drew the second leg 1–1. India were out via aggregate scoring which went in favor of Qatar 2–4 and thus did not qualify for the main olympics.

AFC U-22 Asian Cup

2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup

Qualification

In 2011 it was announced that India U23 would participate in the qualifying round of the inaugural AFC U-22 Asian Cup in June 2012. It was also announced that the coach for the u22 team would be Australian Arthur Papas. India is expected to play their first match of the qualifiers on 23 June 2012 against Lebanon at the Seeb Stadium in Oman. After that they shall play Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Turkmenistan, and finally Oman. Only the top 2 teams move on to the final round with the third place team doing a play-off.

Matches

Main article: India national under-23 football team results

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Stadium	Score	Indian Scorers
23 June 2012	2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup Qualifiers	Muscat, Oman	Lebanon	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex	5-2	Manandeep Singh, Alwyn George(2), Jeje Lalpekhlua(2)
25 June 2012	2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup Qualifiers	Muscat, Oman	Iraq	Royal Oman Police Stadium	1-2	Alwyn George
28 June 2012	2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup Qualifiers	Muscat, Oman	United Arab Emirates	Royal Oman Police Stadium	1-1	Romeo Fernandes
30 June 2012	2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup Qualifiers	Muscat, Oman	Turkmenistan	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex	4-1	Lalrindika Ralte, Alwyn George, Romeo Fernandes, Jeje
3 July 2012	2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup Qualifiers	Muscat, Oman	Oman	Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex	0-4	-

Tournament Records

Olympics

Olympics Record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1896	Did not enter
1900
1904
1908
1912
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1948	Represented by Senior Team
1952
1956
1960	Round 1	-	3	0	1	2	3	6
1964	Did Not Enter
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012	Did not qualify
Total	1/25	0 Medals	3	0	1	2	3	6

AFC U-22 Asian Cup

AFC U-22 Asian Cup
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2014	To Be Determined
Total		0/0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Current Squad

The following 23 players were called-up for 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup qualification which was held in Oman from 23 June 2012.

Stats and goals as of 9 August 2012

Name	DOB	Club	Caps (goals)
Goalkeepers
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu	(1992-02-03) 3 February 1992	East Bengal	7 (0)
Soram Anganba	(1991-06-07) June 7, 1991	Pailan Arrows	0 (0)
Ravi Kumar	(1993-07-04) 4 July 1993	Pailan Arrows	0 (0)
Defenders
Abhishek Das	(1993-11-15) 15 November 1993	East Bengal	7 (0)
Souvik Ghosh	(1992-05-11) 11 May 1992	Pailan Arrows	5 (0)
Narayan Das	(1993-02-12) 12 February 1993	TFA	4 (0)
Vishal Kumar	(1992-07-30) 30 July 1992	Pailan Arrows	4 (0)
Prathamesh Maulingkar	(1991-04-04) 4 April 1991	Pailan Arrows	3 (0)
Deepak Devrani	(1992-12-10) 10 December 1992	Pailan Arrows	2 (0)
Pritam Kotal	(1992-09-08) 8 September 1992	Pailan Arrows	1 (0)
Midfielders
Lalrindika Ralte	(1992-09-07) 7 September 1992	East Bengal	9 (1)
Milan Singh	(1992-05-15) 15 May 1992	Pailan Arrows	5 (0)
Alwyn George	(1992-03-01) 1 March 1992	Pailan Arrows	4 (4)
Romeo Fernandes	(1992-07-06) 6 July 1992	Dempo	4 (2)
Pronoy Halder	(1991-02-25) 25 February 1991	Pailan Arrows	4 (0)
Dhanpal Ganeshan	(1993-03-16) 16 March 1993	Pune	3 (0)
Shaiju Mon	(1992-05-16) 16 May 1992	Chirag Kerala	2 (0)
Tirthankar Sarkar	(1993-07-01) 1 July 1993	Pailan Arrows	2 (0)
Deepak Prakash	(1992-03-10) 10 March 1992	HAL	1 (0)
Simranjit Singh	(1992-05-30) 30 May 1992	TFA	0 (0)
Forwards
Jeje Lalpekhlua	(1991-01-07) 7 January 1991	Pune	12 (6)
Manandeep Singh	(1992-11-03) 3 November 1992	East Bengal	6 (1)
Holicharan Narzary	(1990-12-02) 2 December 1990	Pailan Arrows	1 (0)

Coaching Staff

As of 25 May 2012

Tenure	Head Coach/Manager
2008–2010	Sukhwinder Singh
2010–2011	Des Bulpin
2012–present	Arthur Papas

Position	Name
Head Coach	Arthur Papas

External links

• India U23 profile on the All India Football Federation website